Pad-support for pressing-machines.



' 0. E. w. BRUNK.

PAD SUPPORT FOR PRESYSING MACHINES.

APPHCATION FILED 00115 1917.

l ,2'76,'? 1 7. Patnted Aug. 27, 1918.

OSCAR E. W. DRUNK, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO JOSEPH J. MARX,OF

- ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 2'7, 1918.

Application filed. October 15, 1917. Serial No. 196,577.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OSCAR E. W. BRUNK, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented anew and useful Pad-Support for Pressing-Machines, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to machines for pressing garments and other kindsof fabric, and has special reference to the device for supporting thegarments or fabrics upon the buck of the machine.

An object of the invention is to provide a frame adapted to beplacedupon the heated buck of the pressing machine to support the padupon which the garment or fabric is placed so that the pad will not beburned or scorched, and as a result thereof become broken ordisintegrated and drawn through the foraminous top plate of the buck ofthe machine.

Another object is to provide a removable device of the charactermentioned comprising spaced upper and lower walls composed of woven wirethrough the spaces of which the steam may freely pass during theoperation of the pressing machine, but

which will support the pad so that it will not be burned or scorched andas a result thereof be drawn through the head of the buck.

In the accompanying drawings, in which I have illustrated the invention,

Figure 1 is a front elevation, partly in section, of a pressing machinehaving the present invention in connection therewith.

Fig. 2 is a plan view'with a part of the pad removed to ilustrate theconstruction of the frame. r

Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

The pressing machine with which I have illustrated my present inventionis similar to that disclosed in the patent to Benjamin Weinberger, No.1,193,093, dated August 1, 1916. The moistening, heating and pressingmechanism will be generally described in order that the presentinvention may be fully understood, not only as to its construction andarrangement, but also as to its cooperation with a pressing machine. Themachine of that patent includes a press head 1 which is movable towardand away from the buck or support bv which the garment orfabric to bepressed is supported. The

buck is in the form of a frame and comprises a foraminous top plate 2secured to a frame so as to form therewith a chamber 3 which is closedfrom communication with another chamber 4 in the frame.

Steam from any available source of supply may be admitted to theinterior of the press head through a supply pipe 5 having a normalyclosed valve 6 arranged to be opened at will of the operator bymanipulation of a handle 7.

As illustrated the foraminous top plate 2 forms the upper wall of thechamber 3. H eretofore machines of this type have been equipped with adssecured directly to the top plate of t e buck for receiving andsupporting the garment or cloth to be pressed by pressure of the head 1.In the machine shown, the buck may be heated by steam admitted to thechamber 1 through a pipe 8, though the buck may be otherwise heated, ifdesired... The garment or cloth is moistened by steam forced from thehead 1 through the garment and the openings through the top plate 2 intothe chamber 3 from which the steam is withdrawn and discharged through apipe 9 controlled by the manipulative valve 16 and connectionstherefrom. A machine in which the pad is secured directly to the topplate 2 of the heated buck burns and scorches the pad, so that it breaksand parts thereof are drawn into the chamber 3 and thence into thedischarge pipe. It is with machines of this class, irrespective of theparticular arrangement thereof, that my present invention is arranged tocooperate.

My present invention consists of a device in the form of ahollowforaminous frame adapted to be placed upon the supporting frame orbuck and to support the pad out of contact with the top plate of thebuck so that the pad will not be subjected to the destructive actionofthe heat aS formerly.

As illustrated the device is in the form of a frame the contour of theside edges of which conform generally to the edges of the upper wall ofthe buck. The frame comprising an upper wall 11 and a similar lower wall12, both formed of woven wire, as shown, and retained in spaced relationby an interposed spacing strip 13 placed between and secured to theupper and lower walls adjacent to their edges. In addition there areseveral other spaclng strips 14 arranged and secured proper relation andposition hetween the upper and lower walls so that said walls will notbe bent when the garment or fabric is pressed thereon, ft is preferable, though hot essential, that the spacing strips 13 and i l be ofsome fabricated material, such as packing.

. To this frame the pad. 15 composed of fabric or other appropriatematerial, is secured for receiving and supporting the garment or fabricto be pressed. The pad may be secured to the frame by any desiredfastening connections, such, for instance as the bands 16 in connectionwith the pad and passing around or oth rwise engaging the frame.

The frame thus constructed is intended to be placed upon the top plate 2of the back so as to support the pad 15 out of contact with the heatedparts of the pressing chine. In operation the device is applied asillustrated in Fig. 1 in which the garment or fabric may be placed uponthe pad, and then subgected to'pressure hy operation of .the head 1 inthe usual manner. During this operation steam is introduced through thehead and upon and into the garment by opening the valve 6 by means ofthe handle '7, thereby moistcning the garment simultaneously withthe-application of the mechanical pressure; its usual, the steam formoistening the garment is admitted only for an instant, while the rmentis wider pressure whereupon he oted in usual e valve s to allow steam ormoisture condensation quickly dried.

The frame thus constructed is readily in terchangeable from one machineto another and requires no binding connections to retain it in place. isapparent that the specific construction and arrangement of the frame maybe varied without in the least doparting from the invention. 1 do not restrict myself to any specific features other than as set forth in theappended claims.

l hat I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

the edge portion of said frames in spaced relation and preventing thepassage of steam laterally from between said frames, and a series ofadditional spacing strips also interposed between said frames andsupporting them in spaced relation.

, @SUAE W1 BRUNEI l

